Archive: March 22, 2009 - March 28, 2009

Was it 1492 or 1968? 1066 or 1848? We've had a spate of bestsellers about the events of a single year, and two new titles are on their way: 1959: The Year Everything Changed, by Fred Kaplan, will be published in June. Kaplan (who writes the War Stories column about...

Narrative history was considered an endangered species during the 1970s and '80s, when no-frills revisionist scholarship was in the ascendance. But in the decades since, on the shoulders of such bestselling authors as David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin, narrative history has made a comeback. We've rediscovered the joy of...